Mini Wall-Hangings

 I'm in a small group at church, and have known the other 4 families in the group for many years.  

In prior years, I've always tried to get something for all of them at Christmas.  With all the eye issues over the past 13 months that didn't happen this past year.   So when I found a panel with 4 mini panels in it (panel was a remnant) I decided to make 4 mini-wall-hangings for them.   

And instead of waiting for Christmas to gift them, I'm going to gift them and personalized notes to everyone as a surprise to them at our next meeting in a couple of weeks.

Gratitudes:

1. Longtime friendships

2. For working AC.

ScrapHappy July 2025

  Welcome to Scrap Happy Day where we post about the scrappy projects we've worked on over the past month.   

Be sure to check out what everyone else has done with their scraps this month - Kate, Eva, Sue, Lynda, Birthe, Turid, Tracy, Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys, Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen, Sunny, Kjerstin, SueL,  Vera, Ann, Dawn2, Carol,  Preeti, Viv, Karrin, Amo, Alissa, Tierney, and Hannah

Final scrappy project for the month was this toddler sized quilt.  Made with 5" finished squares of assorted frog fabrics left from alphabet quilts I'd made years ago, and from a swap with others.   White squares were all from a lot of solid white scraps and remnants.  Next photos a larger pic of the 5 frog prints I used up.

Next up was more piecing of bits and pieces of various white, WOW and other light toned fabrics.   Top one in the pic to the right was actually made from 2 scraps of bias tape.  Eventually I'll add the wonder under to the back of these and then cut postcard backs from them.

Assorted WOW's, light grey, and creams in this bunch.

And the final bunch of scrappy goodness for this month was spent in finishing off a bunch of scrappy bowl cozies that I'd prepped more than a yr ago, probably at least 18 months or 2 yrs.

All total 18 cozies were finished up.    All were made with scraps (some from my stash, some bought in scrap bags like the prints to the right).   Batting squares in the cozies were cut from scraps of batting leftover from quilts (I've been using Warm 100 by Warm & Natural lately because it is 100% cotton, even the scrim).   These will either end up as gifts or being sold.

I was able to make 7 matching cozies with this lovely sunflower fabric.   It was the leftover bit from what had been a border print.   I forget what I had used the original for, might have been a quilt back.

Reverse side of the sunflowers. TOT yellow striped remnant that has been in my stash forever and a day.

The last bunch of cozies were made from scraps of Coca-cola brand fabric, along with scraps of various red and black fabrics.  

Backs were all cut from a remnant of red TOT print that was leftover from another project.  The pieced fronts were all quilted before making the cozies since that they were pieced from small pieces.

Gratitudes - 

1. The mobile sold!!!!
Closing should have been on 6/30, but due to unforeseen issues on the buyers part ended up delayed.  Sale finally closed on 7/07.   I'm so thankful to not have that to deal with with anymore.

2. I have a new AC at the house which replaced the 14 yr old one that decided to die just as the temps rose to 118 degrees.  I'm looking forward to seeing if it makes a difference in my power bill.

3. Thankful also for my work computer because my personal laptop has decided it was on life support....sigh, time to go shopping for a new one.

Scrappy Churn Dashes

 I've got lots of swap blocks and orphan blocks that I haven't put together yet.   One of the sets of blocks that I had are 6 inch finished churn dash blocks.     20 blocks used, still have several more though to use in something else.  Border fabric was a peachy pink that I'd bought thinking it would work for another project only to find the colors clashed...oops.

And I had some scrappy strips that I'd pieced using adding machine tape paper and the tiniest of scraps from fabrics I'd inherited after a friend passed.  I used 4 of the strips for alternate rows between the churn dash blocks. No measuring on placement, just eyeballing them to alternate direction.

Gratitudes:

1. Eye sight is better now that I'm back on eye drops.

2. Temps are supposed to cool off starting this weekend from the 118-120 degrees it's been running this week.